• MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
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    Millennials are old enough to remember analog cameras and photos of people with red eyes. Man, people need to update their definition of which generation is “young.”

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      The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.

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        As far as mental maturity goes I skipped from 15 to 65, which is to say I’ve never truly behaved as a normal adult free of childish and/or eccentric whims.

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      Hell, even the older Gen-Z grew up with analog cameras, VHS players, paper maps, and no computers.

      I’m not sure people realize zoomers are almost 30, and millennials are nearing 50.

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        Either way, I think we can agree that millennials know what film is. Many of us have even developed it ourselves. You know back when people were thought things other than app development and learned helplessness.

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      Right? Who made this? What millennial doesn’t remember red eye, it was in every damn photo when I was a kid and Im not a particularly old millennial.

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    Mhhh… yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s… what’s all that red eye stuff about?

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    One thing I found interesting is!how red-eye reduction works - it pre-flashes you eye briefly, before the main flash. So your pupils constrict and light doesn’t reflect off the bottom of your eyes. Yes, you are part of the mechanism!

    Some strange kind of bio-mechanical symbiotic mechanism is that!

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    People call “millennials” young because they are old but too proud to say “teenagers”.

    Plus the generational infighting is what the ruling class will use to replace or supplement the culture war.

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    Fun fact some may find disturbing, when you see a red-eye photo you’re actually looking at the inside of the person’s eyeballs. Red-eye in photos happens when a camera flash reflects off the back of the eye, specifically the choroid, a layer rich in blood vessels behind the retina. When the flash is too quick for the pupil to contract, the light enters the eye and bounces off this red tissue, giving you a great picture of the inside of their eyeballs. I hope everyone enjoys knowing that as much as I have.

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    Wait, do digital cameras not do the red eye effect? Now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve seen a photo with red eye in it in a long time, but I had always assumed that was a consequence of the camera flash, not the film…

    Edit: TIL that camera redeye does come from the flash, but it hasn’t been much of a thing these days because today’s phones/cameras adjust the flash timing to compensate. Thanks for the replies!

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        Oh god , remember the anti red eye flash that strobed for a second before the flash?

        I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.

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          I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.

          I understood it as the red eyes you see in photos is the wide open iris of an eye you’re photographing zooming in on the blood vessels in the back of the eye. Flashing bright light before the photo makes the iris of the person you’re photographing contract significantly, so you can’t see the blood vessels in the back of the eye anymore.

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        Now that you mention it, I think you might be right… My memory’s not the best lol. From the other replies, it seems that the rarity of redeye these days comes from the timing of modern cameras’ flash, not whether or not it uses film.

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    The dark times, before Buffy came along and saved the world.

    Now that I think of it, was Buffy her actual name or was it short for something?